User talk:Ikas739

I want to change my account name to User:Saki


 * We already have a User:Saki with non-trivial contributions; you cannot take that username. For name changes in general, see WP:Changing username. Huon (talk) 23:38, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I want to change my account name to Ikas739.
 * Only Bureaucrats can apply name changes. The help me template does not directly notify them. You can make your request at Changing username/Simple. Mkdw talk 22:57, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

I sent an email to Wikipedia support team 22.3.2014 stating that I want to delete my account/vanish totally from Wikipedia. They answered that I have to apply new username. I did that. I have this new username Ikas739. But why can I still log in to my account using the previous name as a username? Why hasn`t my old account name vanish from wikipedia? I asked that same question by emailing wikipedia support team but they did not answer my question. There is a text in wikipedia saying: "Do not be surprised if you suddenly cannot log in to your old account; this merely indicates that you should log in under your new user name as the request has been fulfilled." How is it possible that I can log in using my previous username?


 * That's due to an unfortunate side effect of Wikipedia's unified login. When you're logged in to your English Wikipedia account and visit a sister project, such as the Finnish Wikipedia or Metawiki, an account by the same name is created there automatically. You thus have accounts at quite a few projects. Renaming, however, is only performed locally, and indeed your past contributions to the English Wikipedia are now associated with the renamed account. However, since you still had the accounts at the other wikis, and likely some cookie signalling that you were still logged in, a new account under the old name was created at the English Wikipedia, associated with your still-existing accounts at, say, Metawiki. Huon (talk) 23:59, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

What do you recommend I should do so I could vanish?


 * Hey, Ikas. The rename has been performed (again), this time to a random string. Because of the SUL issues that Huon explains above, it's still going to be possible for you to log into your old account name and password, as the SUL mechanism will simply recreate the account automatically. There's nothing we can do about that; you just have to avoid trying to log into it, that's all. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 19:01, 28 March 2014 (UTC)